How will GCSE and A-Level grades be allocated?

THOUSANDS of students have been left stressed and worried about how the shock closure and cancellation of exams will affect their GSCE and A-Level results this year.

Things are becoming clearer around how the Department for Education is handling the cancellations and how htey intend to give kids the right marks. Here's all you need to know.

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When will GCSE 2020 results be released?

Results will come out before August Ofqual said on April 3.

How will GCSE 2020 results be allocated?

The Department for Education has now confirmed that teachers will use homework, mocks and coursework to give students GCSE and A-Level grades this year rather than a formal assessment.

Exams were cancelled as part of the UK lockdown effort to fight coronavirus..

Teachers have until the end of May to send to the regulator the marks they believe the students were on track to get if they had sat the exams, and then rank all of their students in order of how well they think they have done.

Ofqual will then use that to standardise the grades across the board.

Exam boards will offer more formal tests in the autumn to make up for anyone who wants to sit their exam later too.

The system will apply for GCSEs, AS and A Levels, and Extended Project Qualifications (EPQ).

Sally Collier, Chief Regulator, Ofqual, said: "School or college-based assessment already has an important role in many GCSEs, AS and A levels, and in extraordinary circumstances such as these, schools and colleges are best placed to judge the likely performance of their students at the end of the course."

Speaking when the exams were originally cancelled in March, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the BBC: "We’re not going to be in a position where with confidence we would be able to run a full exam programme.

"We’ll be putting the details out tomorrow but children are not going to be sitting exams this year."

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